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- From: maffeis@ifi.unizh.ch (Silvano Maffeis)
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- Subject: UNIZH TR: The PARFORM: A High Performance Platform for Parallel
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- Date: 21 Jul 92 16:47:20 GMT
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- ifi-tr-92.07 (available electronically as ifi-92.07.ps.Z)
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- Abstract
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- The typical workstation in a LAN is idle during large periods of time.
- Under the concept of a hypercomputer this unused, distributed computing power
- can be put at the disposal of the user. The dynamic, heterogeneous, and
- distributed environment calls for a platform taking care of transparency,
- parallelization, load balancing and other issues. We describe such a system
- which, by optimized design and dynamic load distribution, proves faster
- than many related approaches. Performance measurements and an analytic model
- on scalability are presented for an explicit finite difference PDE solver.
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